The Fireground Fitness Podcast, Rayne Gray · Rayne Gray

Ep107, No Quit with Glynn Ross

·1 hr 40 min·5 clips

A twisting motion in water snapped Ross's tibia and fibula "in two places" during a pool drill.

1. The Fireground Fitness Podcast episode with Glenn Ross focuses on a career-ending accident and the Marine Corps path that shaped him. 2. Host Rayne Gray interviews Glenn Ross, a former Marine and City of Phoenix engineer who drives engine 925 on shift. 3. The episode asks what a Phoenix native who joined the Marines in 2002 learned from recon schools, injuries, and fire service work. 4. Ross says he grew up near 59th Avenue and Greenway, attended Cactus High School, and graduated in 2000. 5. He explains that he waited after high school because he was "a skinny little runt" who could not bench 135. 6. Ross says his father told him to wait a year or two, get stronger, and then go in. 7. He says 9-11 changed the timing and he drove from the 202 to his mother's office off I-17 in Peoria to say it was "time." 8. Ross describes entering the Marine Corps on an open contract and aiming for recon after hearing about Force Recon and recon uniforms. 9. He lists the recon screening as a 3-mile run under 18 minutes, 200 sit-ups in 2 minutes, 20 pull-ups, swimming in cammies, and a tread-water test. 10. He says the schoolhouse in Virginia and California used a pipeline with RMAT, BRC, ARS, and endoc phases. 11. Ross says he was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, and later compared Fort Story to Coronado as one of the two recon bases he attended. 12. He says injuries repeatedly interrupted the pipeline, including shin splints, stress fractures, a broken tibia-fibula, and a torn ACL. 13. Ross tells the pool story where the corpsman said, "I don't give a fuck. Get in the water because it's a safety hazard." 14. He says the twisting motion of throwing the ball in the water snapped his tip fib "in two places" and left his leg flopping like a wet noodle. 15. Ross says he spent about five months in a full leg cast and had to restart the school from scratch. 16. He also says a car door broke his thumb in two places the night before another screening, then he cut off the cast and passed anyway. 17. Ross describes SEER school in Maine in February, where civilian instructors dug under snow to show running water beneath the surface. 18. He says the resistance phase involved being captured, hogtied, trucked to a compound, and pushed until he thought, "I am out of school." 19. The conversation is conversational and technical, with Rayne Gray asking follow-up questions and Ross answering with detailed military-school examples. 20. Listeners who like Marine recon, SEER school, and fireground fitness will get the most from it. 21. People looking for a short, polished leadership talk without injury stories may skip it.

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A steady look at resilience after a career-ending accident, shaped by service, training, and hard-earned perspective.

Fireground Fitness Podcast presents Glenn Ross as a former Marine and City of Phoenix engineer who has carried a career-ending accident into a broader reflection on service, training, and recovery.

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When you want a blunt fireground interview with a former Marine and City of Phoenix engineer talking through a career-ending accident.

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